Event: Exhumation, Relics-collecting/depositing/granting, Relics-incorrupt preservation/placing in reliquary/requesting/translatingCuthbert 1 opening of his sepulchre

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Description A council was held by the elders (Anonymi 215) and licence was given by Bishop Eadberht 3 to raise the relics of Cuthbert 1. They found a thing marvellous to relate, namely that the whole body was as undecayed as when they had buried it.
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Original Text concilio a decanibus facto, et a sancto episcopo Eadberhto licentia data, reliquias ossium sancti Cudberhti episcopi totius familiae probatissimi uiri de sepulchro proposuerunt eleuare.
Date from Source Eleven years after his death

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